by James M. Curtis (Editor), Colleen Etman (Contribution by), Rodney Marcel Fierce (Contribution by)

This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"--one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence."

Author Biography

James M. Curtis is instructor of English at Louisiana State University Shreveport.